This lesson develops students' comprehension, oral language and critical thinking as they respond to Dog Stayed before, during and after reading. Students make personal connections, analyse characters' feelings and retell key events while exploring themes of friendship, loyalty, loss and hope.

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Students will develop their understanding of story structure by retelling and sequencing the events of Dog Stayed using picture cues and spoken language. Through collaborative discussion and sequencing activities, they will identify the beginning, middle and end of the story while describing characters, settings and key events in logical order.

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Students will participate in a Reader’s Theatre performance of Dog Stayed, practising fluent, expressive reading and teamwork. They will use voice, facial expressions and gestures to communicate characters’ feelings and deepen their understanding of the story.

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Students will retell scenes from Dog Stayed using freeze-frame drama, facial expressions and spoken language to show characters’ feelings and actions. They will also create and perform an alternative version of a scene by changing a character, setting or event.

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Students will identify and discuss the emotions shown in Dog Stayed by using clues from the illustrations, characters' actions and the author's words. They will develop emotional literacy by explaining feelings, sharing personal responses and comparing their own likes and dislikes with those of the characters.

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Students will reflect on the events of Dog Stayed by identifying characters' emotions and sharing their own personal responses to the story. Through discussion, drawing and writing activities, they will make meaningful connections between the text and their own experiences while communicating their ideas clearly.

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This lesson begins with the author's video, helping students connect Dog Stayed to real experiences of love, loss and healing. Through discussion, reflection and creative activities, students will develop emotional literacy and empathy while exploring how memories can bring comfort and hope.

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Students will explore how repetition creates rhythm and meaning in Dog Stayed by identifying and responding to the repeated refrain, "dog stayed," during a shared reading. They will then create and perform their own simple poems using a repeated phrase, developing an understanding of how refrains can emphasise emotions, themes and important ideas.

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Students will investigate how the illustrations in Dog Stayed communicate mood and emotion through colour, light and character expressions. They will create happy and sad self-portraits before using them to respond to the changing emotions throughout a shared reading of the story.

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